Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen.

When you create database tables with Python objects, you use a class to declare the behavior of each field first, then its type. For instance, a mandatory, distinct name field would be name ...

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS .